let's never forget the dark days of the bush administration when dan rather got fired and no one would talk about anything. this open dialogue, which does lead to solution of problems. i'm so grateful, thank you c-span. i would like to say that i can remember at the very beginning of the bush administration when those democratic congressmen got up and said if we do this we're going to have these dire financial problems. sure enough we did. and then it's the bush's administration lack of leadership that has brought us into all these gigantic problems like the b.p. oil spill, due to lack of oversight. so thank you so much, we can solve our problems, there is such a thing as a possiblist, possibility, it's possible to solve this problem, we can do anything. host: all right, we leave it there -- caller: wait, wait, wait -- host: we move onto howard. caller: well, good morning. i wish you had let that lady from montana continue, but yes she did ramble on a bit. to get to the budget, i think first of all have to understand that -- and i'll speak slowly so all the lib cals out there understan